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	Guardian \| Mafia arrest brings police closer to boss of bosses
		Magistrates who have grown old hunting Bernardo Provenzano punched the air in victory yesterday after a midnight raid netted his lieutenant, Vincenzo Virga, one of the 10 most wanted criminals in Italy, in a cottage on the outskirts of Trapani, on western tip of Sicily.
		Police believe the real damage to Provenzano is the loss of his liaison with a new generation of mobsters who know him only as a ghost, flitting from safe houses to mountain shacks.
		The last known photograph of Provenzano, who was convicted in his absence for the 1992 murder of a judge, was taken in 1959 and shows a heavy-set young man with brilliantined hair, a grave expression and wearing a suit.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4139907-103681,00.html (566 words)

	Bernardo Provenzano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Bernardo Provenzano (born January 31, 1933) is a member of the Sicilian Mafia (La Cosa Nostra) and is suspected of being the head of the Corleonesi, a Mafia Family from the village of Corleone, and as such, de facto capo di tutti capi (Boss of Bosses) of the entire Sicilian Mafia.
		Provenzano has not been publicly seen since the early 1960s, and when his wife and two grown-up sons came out from hiding in 1992, many suspected that Provenzano was dead, from natural causes or otherwise.
		Provenzano has been a fugitive from the law ever since his indictment for murder in 1963 and it is theorized that he has been on the run longer than any other criminal, an unparalleled 42 years as of 2005.
	barber.blogiston.com /Bernardo_Provenzano (888 words)

	Corriere della Sera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Sicilian legend Provenzano, now 70, is Italy's most wanted man and has had the police on his trail for 40 years.
		Provenzano, known as Binnu the Tractor, took over the Mafia in 1993 after the arrest of former boss of bosses, Salvatore (Toto) Riina.
		Provenzano is said to favour a truce with the state, unlike the strategy relished by the mercurial Riina.
	www.corriere.it /english/gallery/2004/05_Maggio/11/provenzano.shtml (96 words)

	newsobserver.com \| World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Provenzano is believed to have taken command of the Mafia after the 1993 arrest of "boss of bosses" Salvatore "Toto" Riina, who was among those convicted for ordering the killings of Falcone and Borsellino.
		To eliminate any doubt that the DNA was Provenzano's, investigators compared it with a blood sample taken from Provenzano's brother, who was treated at a clinic in the family's town of Corleone, Sicily, La Stampa said.
		Analysis indicated that the two samples were "99.87 percent similar," strongly increasing the likelihood that the French sample was indeed that of Bernardo Provenzano, the newspaper said.
	newsobserver.com /24hour/world/story/2849008p-11510103c.html (497 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Rory Carroll on mafiosi Bernardo Provenzano
		For 37 years, mafiosi Bernardo Provenzano has been on the run, masterminding the ruthless activities of the Cosa Nostra from safehouses in the Sicilian mountains.
		Provenzano's rise is encrusted with myth, but some things are known.
		By the 80s, Riina was the undisputed boss of bosses, with Provenzano as his deputy.
	www.guardian.co.uk /g2/story/0,3604,477367,00.html (1496 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Italian Police Arrest 46 in Big Mafia Operation
		The operation uncovered how Provenzano, 70-years-old and known in his younger years as "Binu the tractor" because of the way he would mow down his opponents, has managed the run the crime group like a phantom who continues to evade arrest.
		Provenzano, a native of the town of Corleone- made famous in "The Godfather" films- assumed control of the Mafia after the state scored major arrests against the mob in the early 1990, including that of top boss Salvatore "Toto" Riina in 1993.
		The last picture police have of Provenzano was taken nearly three decades ago and in it he looks like a handsome university athlete.
	english.epochtimes.com /news/5-1-25/26011.html (407 words)

	TIME Europe Magazine: Sicily's Invisible Man -- Sep. 06, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A turncoat Mob informant later confirmed that Provenzano, who's been on the lam in Sicily for the past four decades, had indeed been in Mezzojuso that morning.
		When top Mob lieutenant and Provenzano associate Antonino Giuffré was captured two years ago and turned state's witness, a window was cracked open that provided a rare glimpse of how the man known as the Tractor — for his skill in mowing people down — runs a sprawling criminal organization while eluding capture.
		Provenzano has rarely put a foot wrong in more than 50 years with the Mafia.
	www.time.com /time/europe/magazine/article/0,13005,901040906-689399,00.html (778 words)

	The Independent (London, England): Running the Mafia by remote control; Bernardo Provenzano, once nicknamed `The ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Independent (London, England): Running the Mafia by remote control; Bernardo Provenzano, once nicknamed `The Tractor' for his brutality, has reinvented the Sicilian Mafia as a business, with calculators in place of Kalashnikovs.
		Running the Mafia by remote control; Bernardo Provenzano, once nicknamed `The Tractor' for his brutality, has reinvented the Sicilian Mafia as a business, with calculators in place of Kalashnikovs.
		This is the only known photograph of Bernardo Provenzano, now the supreme boss of the Sicilian Mafia.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:117045399&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (284 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Sicilian swoop on Mafia boss
		The swoop is the second major victory for the police this year as it follows the arrest of Benedetto Spera, Provenzano's right hand man, three week's ago.
		Provenzano - also known as the Tractor because of his physical bulk and the way he mows his opponents down - went underground almost 40 years ago.
		They think that a package of warm clothing which she mentions in one letter means that Provenzano is hiding out in the mountains.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/1184009.stm (415 words)

	Independent, The (London): Running the Mafia by remote control
		Provenzano's success in evading capture is only part of the story, only the context of his life's work.
		And Provenzano, who never uses the telephone and moves without fuss or aggravation around the island, reads the letter and writes to the mafioso in charge of the locality from which the request was issued, asking him to sort it out.
		Provenzano types his bigliettini, or notes, on an ancient Olivetti 32 that he carries everywhere.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_200405/ai_n12784489 (1493 words)

	The Hindu : International : Mafia boss is cheeky too?
		Provenzano had an operation at a private clinic in the south of France and got the Italian health service to pay the bill.
		Provenzano (72) had secretly had a prostate operation at a clinic near Marseilles in October 2003.
		Provenzano had used the name of Gaspare Troia, a baker from near Palermo, who is a year older than him.
	www.hindu.com /2005/03/03/stories/2005030302911400.htm (203 words)

	Fugitive for 41 years, Mafia boss a master of elusion - World - www.smh.com.au (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		But without success: Bernardo Provenzano, the boss of the Sicilian Mafia, has been on the run for 41 years.
		Provenzano, 72, who has been handed six life sentences, became boss of the Mafia after police arrested his predecessor, Salvatore Riina, in 1993.
		Provenzano, who, like Riina, is from the village of Corleone, changed tactics radically.
	www.smh.com.au /news/World/Fugitive-for-41-years-Mafia-boss-a-master-of-elusion/2005/01/28/1106850110888.html?from=moreStories (603 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Italy Anti-Mafia Chief Accuses Politicians
		Provenzano, 71-years-old and known in his younger years as "Binu the tractor" because of the way he would mow down his opponents, has managed to run the crime group like a phantom.
		Provenzano, a native of Corleone -- a town made famous in "The Godfather" films -- assumed control of the Mafia after the state scored major arrests against the mob in the early 1990s, including that of top boss Salvatore "Toto" Riina in 1993.
		The last picture police have of Provenzano was taken in 1959 and in it he looks like a handsome university athlete.
	english.epochtimes.com /news/5-10-21/33595.html (452 words)

	LancasterOnline.com: Italian Police Arrest 46 Mafia Suspects
		Anti-Mafia investigators in Palermo said that those arrested had helped Provenzano maintain a communication network with other mobsters, and that the arrest offered new details on how Provenzano has eluded authorities for four decades.
		On the run since 1963, Provenzano is the man believed to have taken over at the top of Cosa Nostra following the arrest of former boss Toto Riina in 1993.
		However, with Provenzano on the run for 41 years, authorities do not even have a clear idea what he looks like.
	ap.lancasteronline.com /4/italy_mafia (340 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Police seize Mafia boss
		He is the right-hand man of Bernardo Provenzano, the island's "Invisible Godfather" who has been on the run for 39 years.
		Provenzano, said to be suffering from prostate cancer, narrowly escaped the law a year ago.
		Only two photographs of him, taken in the 1960s, are known to exist and police near-misses in their long hunt for him have become the stuff of Sicilian legend.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/04/17/wmaf17.xml (296 words)

	NEWS - INTERNATIONAL - EUROPEAN - Comcast.net
		This is the new identikit of Bernardo Provenzano, Italy's...
		Investigators have said they believe Provenzano has spent most of his years as a fugitive moving from house to house across Sicily, thanks largely to the help of Sicilians' reluctance to inform authorities.
		While at the clinic, Provenzano reportedly used the name of a 73-year-old Sicilian baker whose son was arrested earlier this year for allegedly providing protection and logistical support to the boss.
	www.comcast.net /news/international/europe/index.jsp?cat=EUROPE&fn=/2005/03/08/75620.html (297 words)

	The Nation
		ROME (AFP) - A Mafia boss considered to be a right-hand man of reclusive Mafia Godfather Bernardo Provenzano has committed suicide in his prison cell in Sicily, the ANSA news agency reported Friday.
		Investigators were quoted by ANSA as saying Pastoia became aware that police had records of telephone conversations in which he had tried to cheat Provenzano in business dealings, and had carried out killings without the authorisation of his superiors in the Cosa Nostra, Sicily’s organised crime gang.
		Provenzano, who has been on the run for four decades, is believed to be living in the Palermo area.
	www.nation.com.pk /daily/jan-2005/29/international8.php (190 words)

	Luciano Leggio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was regarded as highly volatile and violent, and was rumoured to have once murdered a rival mafioso and his girlfriend and then raped and strangled the woman's 15-year-old daughter.
		Leggio took control of the Corleonisi in 1958 after having Michele Navarra murdered, and over the next five-years he led a group of younger mafiosi (including Salvatore Riina and Bernardo Provenzano) against Navarra's faction.
		The Mob War resulted in 140 murders and by the end of it, Leggio and his faction emerged victorious, although the increase in violence (coupled with a separate Mob War in Palermo around that time) had inspired a crackdown against the Mafia, meaning Leggio and his associates had to go into hiding.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Luciano_Leggio (523 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		He became the real boss of bossses and tried to reach an agreement with his main opponent, Bernardo Provenzano, from Cinisi, a “don”, who owns a world record: he is fugitive from justice since 30 years.
		Provenzano, the “moderate”, is the winner, against the old strategy of the “slaughterers”, in order to avoid the pressure put by police forces on the mafia.
		Provenzano and his mafiosi must deal with politicians for lucrative bridge on the Strait of Messina, dividing Sicily from the mainland.
	www.dicar.dk /files/Konferencer/hand197.doc (923 words)

	TIME Europe Magazine: Meet The Modern Mob -- Jun. 10, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Bernardo Provenzano, now 69, became the capo dei capi of Cosa Nostra after his boyhood buddy from Corleone, Riina, was arrested in 1993 and subsequently sentenced for masterminding the Falcone and Borsellino assassinations.
		Investigators say that Provenzano — who has been a fugitive since 1963 and is believed to be hiding out in the hills near Trapani on the far western tip of Sicily —; decided that the Mob needed to cool its killer instincts after the state cracked down in response to the magistrates' slaying.
		In a move that symbolizes the shift in the Mafia's strategy, Provenzano — once known as the Tractor for clearing away rivals — is now referred to as the Accountant.
	www.time.com /time/europe/magazine/article/0,13005,901020610-257072-2,00.html (556 words)

	Mafia boss eludes police for 41 years - World - www.theage.com.au
		The Sicilian Pimpernel, the elusive Bernardo Provenzano, boss of the Sicilian Mafia, has been on the run for 41 years.
		Police hid three listening bugs in the farmhouse and learnt that Pastoia was to meet Provenzano on September 19, but the Mafia boss was tipped off.
		Provenzano, who like Riina is from the village of Corleone, changed tactics radically, ordering mafiosi to keep a low profile.
	www.theage.com.au /news/World/Mafia-boss-eludes-police-for-41-years/2005/01/30/1107020257116.html?from=moreStories (404 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Mafia boss flees Sicily to have prostate surgery in France
		Provenzano, it was revealed last week, has undergone a prostate operation in a private clinic near Marseilles, travelling from Sicily to France by car without being apprehended.
		The most recent photograph of Provenzano is decades old but investigators were alerted to the French connection when medical records from Marseilles were seized in a raid.
		Investigators believe that Salvatore Troia drove Provenzano, who is afraid of flying, to Marseilles in October that year.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/02/27/wmafia27.xml (320 words)

	Italian police swoop on 'mafia', 46 arrests - World - www.smh.com.au
		The suspects, charged with crimes including murder, extortion and drug trafficking, "formed the logistic network of Bernardo Provenzano, guaranteeing his communication with the entire Mafia organisation", a police statement said.
		The operation, carried out in various parts of Sicily, involved more than 1000 police and was timed "to prevent the escape of some of the most dangerous mafia killers", it said.
		Provenzano, 70, has managed to escape arrest for more than four decades.
	www.smh.com.au /news/World/Italian-police-swoop-on-mafia-46-arrests/2005/01/26/1106415605481.html?from=moreStories (262 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Italian police seize 'Mafia boss'
		He is thought to have recently been in charge of helping Mr Provenzano in hiding, Italian media report, quoting investigators.
		Bernardo Provenzano has been on the run for at least 30 years, allegedly succeeding the previous "boss of bosses", Salvatore Riina, after his arrest in 1993.
		When Mr Provenzano's alleged right-hand man, Benedetto Spera, was arrested in 2001, Mr Sciarabba is said to have climbed to the highest ranks of the Sicilian Mafia.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/3172044.stm (239 words)

	GANGSTERS INCORPORATED - TOTO RIINA
		The illiterate farmers lead by Leggio would contend the business to the doctor Navarra; they were poor but have the best killers of the village: Salvatore Riina and Bernardo Provenzano.
		At the end of the war the young faction won; Luciano Leggio became the new boss, Salvatore Riina the underboss and Bernardo Provenzano the consigliere.
		He replaced old bosses and created a new Commission, where all people were ordered by him; but in 1992 after judge Falcone and Borsellino slaughters, the State reacted heavily to his violence and fought him and his allies for a few years.
	gangstersinc.tripod.com /TotoRiina.html (578 words)

	Monday, January 23 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Bernardo Provenzano, who is on the list of the first most wanted Italian mafia man for ten years now, had another tentative of using Romania for money laundry.
		Members of several mafia families, collaborators of prosecutors, declare Don Vito to be some sort of Grey Eminence, always staying in the shadow of Provenzano, always advising the latter financially and representing him in the relationships with the political world.
		In the document sent by the Italians to the Romanian authorities asking for a commission to be appointed, it is mentioned that apart from his interests in the waste recycling business, Massimo Ciancimino has also connections with a furniture manufacturing company from Arad.
	www.crji.org /arhiva/e_060123.htm (2716 words)

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